Kenya | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)

Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year. Development relevance: Reproductive health is a state of physical and mental well-being in relation to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. Means of achieving reproductive health include education and services during pregnancy and childbirth, safe and effective contraception, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data. Statistical concept and methodology: Total fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier years.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Kenya
Records
63
Source
Kenya | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
7.632 1960
7.718 1961
7.803 1962
7.864 1963
7.92 1964
8.028 1965
8.056 1966
8.046 1967
8.038 1968
8.031 1969
8.024 1970
8.003 1971
7.975 1972
7.939 1973
7.907 1974
7.877 1975
7.843 1976
7.803 1977
7.746 1978
7.679 1979
7.598 1980
7.513 1981
7.402 1982
7.263 1983
7.123 1984
6.975 1985
6.848 1986
6.682 1987
6.505 1988
6.323 1989
6.129 1990
5.935 1991
5.746 1992
5.574 1993
5.446 1994
5.366 1995
5.306 1996
5.26 1997
5.246 1998
5.181 1999
5.137 2000
5.091 2001
5.016 2002
4.907 2003
4.83 2004
4.784 2005
4.748 2006
4.719 2007
4.646 2008
4.514 2009
4.367 2010
4.219 2011
4.088 2012
3.952 2013
3.844 2014
3.8 2015
3.724 2016
3.643 2017
3.58 2018
3.469 2019
3.397 2020
3.335 2021
2022

Kenya | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)

Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year. Development relevance: Reproductive health is a state of physical and mental well-being in relation to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. Means of achieving reproductive health include education and services during pregnancy and childbirth, safe and effective contraception, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data. Statistical concept and methodology: Total fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier years.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Kenya
Records
63
Source